admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
Example Sentences
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of one of these I shall give the exact dimensions from a careful admeasurement, and then particularly describe the manner in which they are built.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert
He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.
If we investigate the standards of admeasurement, we find that many have been derived from the human body, and more especially from its operative instrument, the hand.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade—their mortality in it—Construction and admeasurement of Slave-ships—Difficulty of procuring evidence—Cases of Gardiner and Arnold CHAP.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Clarkson, Thomas
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